the packager might not have the knowledge for that... at least, i don't think
i
do...

a sr i welcome... for me...

Andrea, how about if Werner would supply an easy to understand/follow readme?
IHMO it is a mistake to ship support files for packages with other packages
just to make life for packagers simpler.
We have had this in the past and people who added new display managers always
had to touch another package (x11-xorg) to get their display manager to work.
So at the end of the day they did have to go thru this pain you would like to
avoid.

If you are referring to the fact that systemd is so much more cryptic than
sysV-init and a few shell scripts around it, yes, I'm fully with you!
But please bear in mind: it's new(tm) and cool(tm)! And everybody wants it!